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“FOR THE MAN BEHIND THE HOE” 


Vol. XXVI 
Published by Henry Field in the Print Shop 
Shenandoah, Iowa, Sept. 1, 1942 


No e 4 

My Fall Visit—Mostly About Corn 
I suspect you are mighty busy about this time of the year 
and haven’t too much time for a visit. But it will do you good 
to sit back a few minutes and take a little time off for a chat. 
We've been mighty busy here, at Shenandoah, too. The seed- 
house has been running full tilt trying to take care of all the 
new gardeners this year as well as you regular experts who 
put.in a garden double size.. And-aren’t you glad you had a 
nice garden? This has been a bountiful year. I hope you all 
are enjoying the many many fine things from your garden we 
are here. 
Fact is, when Mrs. Field and I took some time off and went 
down to our cabin 
in the Ozarks this 
summer, we al- 
most got busier 
than we had been 
at Shenandoah. All 
in all 'we put up 
already a total of 
1011 pints and 
quarts and bottles 
of garden stuff 
and that is still in- 
complete, for the 
grapes and pepper 
hash and chili 
sauce and tomato 
juice and canned 
apples are still to 
be put up. 
We canned some 
of everything— 
greens, asparagus, 
strawberries, peas, 
carrots, beets, 
pickles, gooseber- 
ries, raspberries, 
blackberries, 
beans, succotash, 
tomatoes, kraut, 
cabbage, peaches 
and a whole lot 
more — too much 
to mention. 
But we enjoy it. 
*'Tisn’t work when 
you do enjoy it 
and we'll have a 
lot of good food to 
eat this winter— 
the extra good 
kind you don’t 
generally find in 
stores. 
But I’m getting off of what I really wanted to talk to you 
about this fall and that’s hybrid corn. 
There’s been a big ‘‘to-do’’ about Hybrid corn the last few 
years. And rightly so. Hybrid corn yields more, feeds better, 
stands up better, does better in drought years and is better all 
the way round. Everybody should plant it. 
But that don’t mean producers can get two prices for it just 
beeause it’s good. It gets my dander up every time I see some 
of the prices some companies ask for corn—$8, $8.50 and even 
some are asking $9. You don’t need to pay that much to get 
I planted down.in the Ozarks. 
for it. There’s no need of it. 
bu,, if you buy direct. 
_good seed. 
Of course, those fellows selling by Acente naturally have to 
get more. Agents get from $1 to $3 per bu. commission for 
selling you that corn. But that’s $1 to $3 per bu. You just as 
well save for yourself by buying your hybrid DIRECT FROM 
THE SEEDSMAN WHO PRODUCES IT. 

Get Good Seed Corn—Properly Raised—But Don’t Pay a Fortune for It 
Mrs. Field took this picture of me looking over some of our No. 129 Mule-Hybrid 
Been selling corn for 50 years and this beats them all. 
I believe in good seed corn, properly raised, but I don’t believe in paying a fortune 
You can save the agent’s 
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We’ve got good hybrids. Think honestly ours beat most of 
them and ties the rest. Costs went up some this year, and our 
price is a little higher than last year, but we can still make a 
fair profit and still save you $1 to $3 per bu. by SELLING TO 
YOU DIRECT, and not through expensive agents. 
Anyway, give us.a chance to show you. We'll convince you 
as we have thousands of other farmers. Incidentally, this year 
our sales were way over the year before—a farmer who once 
plants Mule-Hybrid is back for more. 
Well, I’m going to run out of room if I don’t stop talking 
pretty soon. Anyway, after you get through reading Seed 
Sense, it’s your turn to write me., Send me a letter and let me 
know how your garden turned out, and how things are. If you 
haven’t time for a long letter, pin a note to your order and that 
will have to do. 
And speaking of 
orders this is the 
year to order early. 
Demand for seeds 
is way up, supplies 
generally are not 
large. That means 
some of you are 
going to be disap- 
pointed if you. put 
off ordering too 
long, both this fall 
or next spring 
chicks, garden 
seeds, nursery 
stock and field 
seeds—all are go- 
ing to have some 
serious shortages. 
It won’t be a ques- 
tion*. of = price,” it 
will be a question 
of getting it at all. 
So get your or- 
ders in now, and 
be sure of getting - 
everything you 
need—w hen you 
wantit. Enough for 
now. Henry Field. 
P.S.—Don’t for- 
get to. send in 
those snapshots, 
too with your or- 
ders or letters, and 
tell me about them 
on the back. Need 
themtorSeed 
Sense. See offer on 
page 3. H. FP. 
Get A Headstart! Plant This Fall 
I hope you’re planning to get a lot of nursery stock set out 
this fall. The weather is cool and moist and generally ideal 
and with the plants having an extra 6 months to grow and 
spread their roots and get well established, you’ll be amazed 
next spring at the start fall planted stuff has over things you 
wait until spring to plant. 
Fall planting is getting more popular every year and rightly 
so. I think most people are better pleased-with the quick re- 
sults they get. It’s getting so, we sell most as much nursery 
stock in the fall months as we do in the spring: 
So when you send that bulb order in (spring blooming bulbs, 
you know, MUST BE PLANTED NOW) get that nursery or- 
dered too and planted and ont of the way before spring.—H.F. 

commission of $1 to $3 per 

Copyright 1942 Henry Field Seed Co- 

